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Main Street will be awash with hot cars and cool bikes this Saturday for the Cops & Rodders 2013 Car Show.
Sponsored by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, the event raises funds for the annual Shop With a Cop program and the Kentucky Sheriff’s Association’s Boy’s and Girl’s Ranch.
The event is scheduled for 4 to 9 p.m. on Main Street in Lawrenceburg, and will feature music, fun, food and a mixture of police vehicles and street rods. This year’s event also features a motorcycle division.

The school board denied two department budget increases for high school and middle school athletics and fewer security cameras for Anderson County buses, citing its tight budget for the upcoming school year.
The board unanimously voted to disperse the same amount of athletic budget funding as last year: $49,550 for the high school and $24,400 for the middle school.
Athletic director Rick Sallee had requested a $3,500 increase for the upcoming school year for two items:

Judge-Executive John Wayne Conway laid to rest speculation that he won’t seek a second term in office by announcing Friday that he will run again in 2014.
Conway, a 20-year magistrate who was elected judge-executive in 2010, had suggested he wouldn’t seek re-election leading up to last Friday’s announcement due to ongoing controversies about recycling, building a swimming facility and two embarrassing state audits.
He said that changed after hearing from his supporters.

The driver of a dump truck that struck and killed Lawrenceburg resident Marie Garmon last September was indicted Tuesday afternoon for murder and operating a vehicle under the influence of intoxicants.
Garmon, a young mother and hospice nurse, succumbed to her injuries five days after the dump truck, driven by Hustonville resident Eric D. Jenkins, struck her minivan head-on on Versailles Road.

Jasmin Cruz walks with her son Adrian from her home on Woodford Street to Open Hands Food Pantry every Tuesday and Thursday.
Along the way various neighborhood children who see them as they play in their yards join the Cruzes. Jasmin does this often, bringing children to the food pantry as well as to church services to give them a safe person to be around and play with while introducing them to a Christian lifestyle.
“I like to try to see other kids stay out of trouble.” said Cruz.

The media are guilty, not George Zimmerman or Trayvon Martin.
Few Anderson County residents, when asked, declared George Zimmerman, a 29-year-old former neighborhood watch volunteer, guilty or innocent of the charges brought against him for the fatal shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
The media outlets covering the trial in the months following Martin’s death, however — there’s no question of their guilt, according to several Anderson News readers.

The Lawrenceburg woman who allegedly allowed 8 pounds of marijuana to be mailed to her home in exchange for crack cocaine is scheduled to be arraigned next Tuesday in Anderson Circuit Court.
Diana L. Hart of 303 Vail Drive was charged with trafficking marijuana in April when a postal inspector tracked a large box to her home that was mailed from an address in California.

Governor Steve Beshear recently announced that Xerox is seeking candidates to fill 100 new jobs that will support a Kentucky-based call center for individuals seeking health insurance information through kynect, Kentucky’s Healthcare Connection.

Free residential curbside pickup of recyclables will end Aug. 2, members of the Anderson County Fiscal Court’s “green” committee said during its meeting Monday night.
The committee also revealed that recycling bins will be in place at each of the five public school buildings by Aug. 12, along with Kroger, Walmart, Glensboro Baptist Church and at the intersection of Highways 749 and 62.
Once in place, residents will no longer have their recyclables picked up at the curb, and are asked to transport them to one of the bins.